Rabbit Hash

Unfortunately, the trees were never going to be saved. I learned it was just impractical.

After many years, it looks like this site could see some life. The Christ Hospital was never able to surmount the CON (some would say driven by St. E) for a medical campus. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/11/26/christ-hospital-walks-away-drawbridge-inn-site-fort-mitchell/4305905002/ An 11-story development here would be quite a gateway piece as you begin to enter the inner-ring suburbs of NKY on I71/75. From Cincinnati Business Courier: Nearly a decade after first announcing plans to redevelop the Drawbridge Hotel and Convention Center property in Fort Mitchell, Brandicorp LLC is moving forward with a project anchored by a $200 million first phase. https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2022/06/14/drawbridge-inn-redevelopment-project.html

In my mind, it could be like the squares seen in Savannah. Possible?

Five story low rise suburban crap.

It's great having F500 companies in town for all they add to the community. And then there's this. I realize the story is not complete on this, but we all remember Fountain Square West too well.

Agree. Hopeful that it will turn out better than those images.

Is it as easy as maintaining the approach angle a bit further to the north into the southernmost new parcel and shift the mainline to the east 200ft? That may make the radius of the curve on the north end to drastic though. Admittedly this considerably reduces acreage but... This presents some interesting options for westward DECC expansion. Also, does the addition of "frontage roads" on each side of the trench render Central Avenue as a non-critical north/south thereby opening up contiguous ground level space for DECC? Potential design flaw that is not evident in the overhead. (I haven't seen the full plan.) If you consider the change in elevation the approaches would have to overpass the railroad and then dive under an extended 4th Street, it seems pretty drastic. I realize there is a considerable change in ground elevation there too... Is the website down for anyone else?

Run by President Business from The Lego Movie. Everything is Awesome.

Completely awful. Inhumane.

If you go frame>frame, he only OL that didn't false start I that play was the RG. Watch it again and the OTs moving was visible to the eye. Should have be 3rd&Goal from +13.

PBS - Home of 2030 Final Four, 2032 Super Bowl. Make it happen. ;)

Count me in for a roof on PBS. Coincidentally, this has come up in conversation quite a bit with the Bengal buzz happening. Not putting a roof on it initially is ne of the biggest mistakes this city has ever made. Probably could have hosted a SB and a couple final 4's by now. Find a way!

OT but it's amazing how much these renderings look like the late-1990s The Banks rendering, stylistically speaking.

The post-war metamorphosis of American cities is fascinating for us all. The biggest thing that stands out for me after all of the reading I have done on the subject is the complexity of how we got from there (1900ish) to here (1980ish). Maybe it doesn't characterize it best, but I call it a conspiracy of circumstances. Just start listing the influences and you realize how long the list would turn out. I wonder if anyone has done something exhaustive? Access to transportation (rail then auto) Sanitary improvements Post-war industrialization of everything Segregation Government "help" etc. Thoughts?

Maybe I am missing it but isn't she on the park board and therefore in a conflict of interest?

Beating a dead horse? Yep. We've got $1.2T that we are materializing out of thin air that needs a problem to solve that allows somebody to return some sort of favor to somebody else. Covington should look forward to a quarter of its core being under a freeway.../rant

Do we know what it is? Or is it some huge mystery?

It's driving me insane that they did this sign in just a sans serif typeface. Missed opportunity to use the stylized text logo. Somebody was probably paid very well to make this terrible decision. Bah!

Anderson Ferry hates you.

Interesting. And I get that it's just an idea so I won't pile on. But those of us old enough to remember the old Burgundy's/Prime Time and how they used some creative architecture to have a garage at that end of the building will cringe at this idea. It was nasty.

And Covington doesn't even want the bridge.

Sorry. I may have brought this up before but what about the I-175 concept that I think Jake may heal outlined before? Splitting from the mainline north of Buttermilk. Descend the same valley as the CSX to Ludlow and cross with he Cincinnati Southern Bridge, reconnecting with 75 mainline at Ezzard Charles. I can't seem to find this online but I think it is a great option.

As recently as 1993 the neighborhood was completely built out and intact. The houses were slowly demolished over time. I can remember several years back there were still a couple holdouts.

Seems like Newport is really doing a better job of having their house in order for the development that is happening in the NKY core. There sits Covington with pretty drawings and an empty IRS site that hasn't even been razed yet. Or am I being too critical?

Short on time so I can't read the articles (or you can call me lazy) but is Cincinnati a "character" in any of these or just the shooting location?